Year: 2020

First opportunity for banks to receive stamp of approval on science-based climate targets

Stuart Mitchell

New science-based target validation now available to help financial players align their lending and investments with the Paris Agreement. 55 institutions already committed. The first opportunity for financial institutions to set science-based targets to align their lending and investment activities with climate science is launched today by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). Banks, investors and insurance companies can now verify whether climate targets for their operations and portfolios align with the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping global warming to 1.5°C or well-below 2°C . 55 financial institutions including Bank.…

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Tesco commits to 300% sales increase in meat alternatives

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco has announced it will become the first UK retailer to set a sales target for plant-based meat alternatives as it steps up its work with its partner, WWF to halve the environmental impact of food production. The retailer has committed to a 300% increase in its sales of meat alternatives by 2025*, alongside a wider set of sustainability measures which it has developed with WWF. Taken together, the measures included in the partnership’s Sustainable Basket Metric will aim to halve the environmental impact of the average UK shopping basket.…

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Lenovo Announces New Ambitious Science-Based Targets, Achieves 10-Year Climate Milestone

Stuart Mitchell

Lenovo has unveiled new aggressive, science-based greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for 2030 alongside its new Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report which details its ESG progress to date, as well as its future plans. These new targets have been approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and support global scientific goals to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels (scope 1 and 2) and are ambitious in line with the current best practices (scope 3). Lenovo is setting these new goals after reducing its…

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innocent Drinks selects Atos as digital partner for carbon-neutral factory

Stuart Mitchell

Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, today announces a contract with innocent drinks to deliver an industry-leading, end-to-end technology solution for the smoothie and juice company’s first carbon neutral factory in the Port of Rotterdam called ‘the blender’. Atos will help innocent create a digital factory by providing the carbon-neutral facility with a suite of state-of-the-art solutions, including active LAN and WIFI networking through advanced technology and compute and storage, supported with a professional services package and maintenance support. innocent will benefit from improved operational efficiency and increased security…

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‘You don’t have to do this alone,’ says British Red Cross, as new young volunteers join push to tackle loneliness with Covid-19 rules tightening

Stuart Mitchell

As coronavirus restrictions tighten once more, the UK’s leading crisis response charity is urging people to reach out to others and offering to help those who feel lonely and cut off to keep in touch with people, digitally. As part of the scheme, specialist support will be available from a team of 90 new young digital volunteers, aged 16 to 25, who will be available to chat and talk people of all abilities and levels of confidence through the digital landscape. The British Red Cross has teamed up with the…

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